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Martin Luther King

In the US, at the time of Martin Luther King, the African Americans were discriminated and did not have the same rights as the white people especially in the South. They could not drink from the same fountains, be served at most restaurants… A particular example is when Rosa Parks got arrested because she didn’t let her bus seat to a white person.
Martin Luther King had started a lot of movements against the unfair law that was in place at that time. An example is in 1955 when Martin started a bus strike that lasted for one year in the city of Montgomery. Black people didn’t ride the bus during the strike. But his most important action was when he gav...

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